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2026-11-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Economy/Business

The reason why a rate rise will hurt Sydneysiders most

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2026-09-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Economy/Business

To avoid another rate rise, things might have to get worse

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2026-09-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Economy/Business

RBA hikes interest rates to 4.6 per cent in 15-year high

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2026-09-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Economy/Business

Mortgage calculator: Here’s how much extra your repayments will be

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2026-09-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Economy/Business

Bye bye, babies: A nation living into its 90s is ageing faster than expected

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2026-09-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Economy/Business

An ageing Australia must find ways to pay for world reshaped by AI, climate change

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2026-09-14 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 That was compared to a single mother who rented and caught the bus, who might get $1500 a year. assertive

2026-09-18 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock has issued a blunt warning that inflation in Australia is too high days before the bank’s board will consider lifting interest rates for the fourth time this year. assertive

2026-09-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Long-range forecasts by the federal government predict sweeping changes to Australia over the next 40 years driven by AI and the energy transition as the population ages and geopolitical fragmentation continues, but debt and deficit could spiral if productivity woes continue. assertive

2026-09-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The federal government’s seventh intergenerational report, released by Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Monday, forecasts Australia’s median age, now 38.5 years, to reach 45 years by 2066 – nearly two years older than the previous intergenerational report forecast three years ago. assertive

2026-09-22 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 On Tuesday, bond futures traded on financial markets had priced in an 88 per cent chance that the RBA would lift interest rates by 0.25 of a percentage point next week. assertive

2026-09-24 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 All four major banks expect the Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Board to hike its benchmark cash rate for the fourth time this year next Tuesday, and none of them changed their forecast following the uptick in unemployment. assertive

2026-09-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 On a 25-year loan of $600,000 at 6.50 per cent, your mortgage would cost an extra $93 each month. assertive

2026-09-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock warned last week the jobless rate may need to rise as high as 5 per cent to ease pressure on inflation. assertive

2026-09-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 She even acknowledged the possibility the RBA’s ongoing inflation fight could push Australia into recession if the public’s expectations of inflation cannot be contained. mixed

2026-09-30 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Australia’s inflation rate has jumped to a four-month high, increasing the chances the Reserve Bank will lift interest rates again this year. assertive

2026-10-01 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 That followed hikes in February, March and May. assertive

2026-10-06 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Households will face “recession-like” conditions next year, a leading forecaster has warned, as fresh evidence shows consumers are losing confidence in the economy amid growing cost-of-living pressures. assertive

2026-10-07 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 But the home building sector has this year been hit by a series of interest rate hikes, higher construction prices due to the Middle East war and uncertainty prompted by the May budget’s housing tax changes which are yet to properly flow through to the figures. assertive

2026-10-09 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 “For the first time … ordinary Australians will be able to build a decent nest egg for their retirement,” said the then-Prime Minister. assertive

2026-10-11 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 If you looked at the figures for your area across several age brackets, you may have noticed how earnings track. assertive

2026-10-15 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 If not for a fall in the labour force participation rate – the share of people in work or looking for work – last month’s jobless rate in NSW would have been higher. assertive

2026-10-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Many aspiring home buyers will welcome the recent pullback in prices, although four interest rate hikes by the Reserve Bank this year, which has driven the downturn, have made it harder for new home borrowers to service a mortgage. assertive

2026-11-01 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Sydney’s professional heartland is set to be reshaped by automation with hundreds of thousands of workers in the city’s inner suburbs more exposed to artificial intelligence-driven disruption than anywhere else in Australia. assertive

2026-11-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The Reserve Bank has already lifted interest rates four times this year to combat elevated inflation and is expected to deliver a fifth rate hike after its monetary policy board meets on Tuesday. assertive

2026-11-02 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 But researchers say that figure would rise to about 45 per cent with closer analysis of Brisbane’s CBD and inner suburbs, including South Brisbane, Fortitude Valley, Newstead, Milton and Spring Hill, where knowledge-intensive services such as finance, professional services, and information technology are concentrated. assertive